Department of History of Ukraine

Department of History of Ukraine

Chair of History of Ukraine was created in June 2001. Such Candidates of Science (History), Associate Professors M. V. Kordon, P. I. Natykach, M. E. Lutay, V. A. Vengerska, N. V. Rudnytska, O. I. Zhukovsky, S. V. Stelnykovych, T. L. Rafalska, A. P. Ratsilevych, Assistant Lecturers V. I. Drebot, O. V. Maksimov, Yu. Y. Novitska, I. V. Kovalchuk are the members of the department. It conducts significant educational and research work. Future professionals of all specialities are listening to the courses on the history of Ukraine, history of the Ukrainian culture, the Ukrainian ethnography during the years of study at the University. However, at the historical department lecturers give an advanced course of the History of Ukraine, such disciplines as «Historical Study», «Historical Geography», «Ethnography of Ukraine», «School Course of the History of Ukraine», «Basic Scientific Research», «Introduction to the History» and «Basis of Demography», " Basis of Scientific Research«. Special courses «European Integration and Euro-Atlantic Cooperation of Ukraine», «The Ukrainian National Idea», «Methods of Study of Historical Sources», «Modern Ukrainian Historiography» are given to the students.

Scientific achievements of the members of the department are more than 400 research works. Among them. monographies and textbooks: «Our Motherland», «Zhytomyr Region. Historical Review,» «History of the Modern World,» «History of the Ukrainian Culture,» «History of the World’s and National Culture», «The Ukrainian and Foreign Culture», «European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine», «The History of Ukraine in the Educational Tables», «Czechs in Zhytomyr Region: Past and Present.»

The department conducts international and Ukrainian scientific conferences: «Ethnosocial processes in the Right-Bank Ukraine,» «Liberation war led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Right-Bank Ukraine», «The Struggle of the Ukrainian People for Independence in 1917 — 1921 years (devoted to the 85th Anniversary of the Second Winter Campaign of UNR army). »

Lecturers of the department are active workers of Zhytomyr Regional Center of European and Euro-Atlantic cooperation of Ukraine. It was formed at the University in 2008. The Centre of Jewish Studies, headed by Associate Professor N. V. Rudnytska, works successfully. In 2008-2011, four International and two National Scientific Conferences were held by the centre. Five collections of these conferences have been published.